Chemical Operations Specialist, you'll be there and prepared whenever a community is flooded, an earthquake shakes the foundations of a city, a hurricane makes landfall, or an enemy uses biological or chemical warfare. You will know what to do to evacuate the area, control the situation, and solve the problem.

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re: MarqMetrix - chemical sensing products used across chemistry intensive industries (they cite food and pharma). So they're looking for someone that has at least some background in dealing with chemical data (and perforce, some chemistry), but whose main foci are statistics/IE/programming. Otherwise (i.e., without that chemistry background) it's a bit like the blind man trying to describe the elephant.

re: Gilead - didn't you just post on working in Canada?

re: Tim, I like how at the beginning it states, "You'll be there and prepared..." and then at the end of the description it says, "Telecommuting is allowed."Actually, "You know what to do" puts me in mind of George Harrison... https://youtu.be/tWAAwWdFIj8

I am based at a company outside of Cleveland. $100k is comfortably middle class there. You can buy a perfectly good house in a good school district for ~$250k, and prices of everything else is typical of anywhere in the US.

About that Tyger Scientific...Not that I am a racist but the last time I applied (that was more than 5+ years back) nothing was heard from them only to realize later that Chinese individual was hired. So, the salary could be a big if. This company also gets many of its intermediates from mainland.

Not that I am racist: Always a guaranteed sign that something racist is going to be said.

Absent any other information, this just sounds like sour grapes. Yes, lots of Chinese get hired to CRO type positions like this one. But missing out on a position to a Chinese candidate doesn't automatically make a company racist. It's equally possible you didn't have the necessary experience. Plenty of variables to this story.

Just yesterday, I sent my resume to the CEO of a start-up who I met and who was also very clearly from China. And the ground-breaking discoveries in the field where I am now writing an (orphan) research proposal were carried out by Chinese-Americans. On the other hand, yes, I also see adverts posted for domestic positions where Chinese language skills are a preferred qualification.

"$90,000-$100,000. Not bad for Ohio"!?!? Last time I checked the ACS salary survey that was totally average for a newish PhD chemist. Also, yes Cleveland is pretty reasonably priced. Like Detroit reasonably priced.

Back in 2008, my base as a non-pharma lab chemist (fresh PhD, no postdoc) was $80K...in the Mid-Atlantic. Suffice it to say that I am no longer in the lab (or the Mid-Atlantic).

That same year, grad school friends had bases ranging from $85K (non-pharma, no postdoc) to $95K (pharma, postdoc) in the San Francisco Bay Area. Although they are grossing significantly more than I am (counting bonus and stock options), our respective yearly net, counting only salary, are within $10K of each other. They are happy in SF, I am happy in the Midwest.